CORK CITY PUBS

Below are
just some of Cork City pubs which you
will find on your visit to Cork City, call
in and say hello, most will have Live Music
at some stage so shop around and find the
ones you like. Smoking is no longer
permitted in Irish pubs so lots of the pubs
are equipped with a comfortable outdoor
seating area for their customer! If you are
in Cork it means you have to try either a
creamy Guinness or Beamish, a hot whiskey or
hot port at Christmas, and something bottled
the rest of the year, or an Irish Whiskey
can be sipped anytime of the year, all taken
in moderation will taste good, the tipple of
choice is yours, or maybe just ask your bar
person for some ideas.....

Some long existing Cork pubs include on
Patrick Street Le Chateau, with
outside street seating to watch the shoppers
go by with pub grub available. The
Long Valley, a pub just located off Patrick
Street and the Hi-B just near the GPO
(General Post Office) old world pubs. Just
close by is The Old Oak a good music venue
and also The Oliver Plunkett bar. For a old
world feel bar also try the candle lit
Mutton Lane, can be found on one of the lane
ways heading into the English Market. The
Pavilion off Patrick Street and just in
Corks Huguenot Quarter is a well visited
bar and music venue. The North Mall
is where you will find the Franciscan Well
Brewery and Brewpub located on an old
Franciscan monastery and well site, you will
have an opportunity to try some of there own
brewed beer or any number of craft beers, it
is a pub popular with tourists and students
alike.

McCurtain Street, offers a number
of pubs which you can visit such as the open
pub area of Gallaghers on the corner of
Bridge Street and the start of McCurtain
Street with good food. The Shelbourne next
door to The Everyman Theatre, and one of the
older established names being the Dan
Lowrey's pub for a pre-theatre drink in Cork
City, also in this area you will find
Hotel Isaccs & Greens Restaurant. Across the
road you can call into the Gresham Metropole
Hotel and enjoy a drink,
usually the hub of activity for The Cork
Guiness Jazz Festival in October and which
plays host to numerous jazz acts and artists
during the Jazz Festival in Cork. Further
down the street you will find the LV and Brú
Bar two very lively bars due to the Bru
Hostel just located onsite!

Pembroke Street off Patrick Street
and the South Mall also offers a host of
long established bars from Counihans and
Cantys and The Imperial Hotel at the end on
the South Mall to the recent Arthur
Mayne's, a pub which was previously a
chemist's and which has held some of their
old bottles and little oddities, so a really
nice and quirky touch in this pub, call in
and have a drink or something to eat. A very
popular venue is the Electric Bar &
Restaurant located very comfortably on the
South Mall, popular on a fine evening
with people finishing work on the sunny
evenings as it has a wonderful area to sit
out with river side views of the famous
River Lee and in the distance the spires St
Finbarr's Cathedral can just be seen Its a
lively art deco pub and restaurant, starting
with scones and pastries early morning,
right through with lunches and dinners, tea,
coffee or any drink of your choice
throughout the day.

The bars on Washington Street are
very popular with Cork student clientele so
the bars on this street are always lively
along with An Bróg on Oliver Plunkett
Street. Reardens on Washington Street is a
big venue pub as is Clancys on Princes
Street and some good food to be had here
also, a good place to catch some of the
sports but not over powering, the Rob Roy on
Cook Street also an option for the sports
watchers. At the start of Barrack Street
from the city side, you will find Fordes Bar and The
Flying Enterprise two long established bars
for a relaxed drink or two, further up being
the livelier Tom Barry's well presented pub
with beer garden, Mr Bradleys Bar and Nancy
Spain's and Cissie Youngs popular with the
students in the City.

The Sextant on Albert Quay is close
for town and especially popular in the
Summer time with their many BBQ's. The
Clarion Hotel also has a very nice pub
setting located riverside beside the River
Lee with a nice board walk area outside and
great food.

The Coal Quay area of Cork City
and North Main Street have the following
lively pubs The Roundy, The Coal Quay Bar,
The Bodega, The Raven, has the pubs
such as

Charlie's Bar on Union Quay has a
range of music and a little more hard core
music can be found at Led Zepplins. Also new
to the scene is Cork's own rock bar and
music venue, Black Dog Saloon on North Main
Street and out Washington Street, Preachers
Pub offers Rock & a range of different music
gigs. Maybe you can start with this lot
and let us know how you get on!